Equitable care

The election manifesto explicitly demands that healthcare shall be equitable, equal and accessible regardless of who you are, and states that this is not the case today. The party programme establishes that policy must not be gender-blind and that knowledge about LGBTQ issues must increase within healthcare. The counter-proposal's demands for reporting on gender equality in healthcare, gender-disaggregated statistics and strengthened work for equal rights are the means for exactly this.

• gender-equal healthcaredecisive»Sjukvården måste vara jämlik, jämställd och tillgänglig, oavsett var i landet du bor och oavsett vem du är. Så är det inte idag.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Healthcare must be equitable, equal and accessible, regardless of where in the country you live and regardless of who you are. That is not the case today.”
• policy must not be gender-blind»Politiken får inte vara könsblind« (party programme ↗)“Policy must not be gender-blind”
• equal rights in healthcare»Inom utbildning, vård, näringsliv och rättsväsende måste kunskaperna i hbtq-frågor öka.« (party programme ↗)“Within education, healthcare, business and the justice system, knowledge about LGBTQ issues must increase.”
• women's health problems are neglected»Stressrelaterade sjukdomar blir allt vanligare och psykisk ohälsa ökar särskilt bland kvinnor och hos unga utan att det leder till utbyggd vård eller förändrad arbetsmiljö.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Stress-related illnesses are becoming increasingly common and mental health problems are increasing especially among women and young people without leading to expanded healthcare or changed working conditions.”

The party programme is explicitly feminist and bases its analysis on the fact that inequality is visible in statistical correlations, among other things that certain groups receive worse healthcare than others. The requirement for equal access to healthcare for all residents in the whole country is fundamental. That regions report how gender-equal healthcare is and ensure gender-disaggregated statistics is precisely the data that the plan's equality analysis requires.

• feminist politicsdecisive»Med denna grundsyn är socialdemokratin ett feministiskt parti.« (party programme ↗)“With this fundamental view, Social Democracy is a feminist party.”
• statistics reveal inequality»Det syns i de statistiska sambanden.« (party programme ↗)“It is visible in statistical correlations.”
• equal healthcare for all»Alla invånare i hela landet ska ha likvärdig tillgång till skola, vård och omsorg.« (party programme ↗)“All residents in the whole country shall have equal access to school, healthcare and care.”
• gender equality as a value»Starka värderingar om jämlikhet, jämställdhet och en respekt mellan människor.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Strong values of equality, gender equality and respect between people.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The party programme states that a gender and equality perspective shall permeate all healthcare and treatment and that equal care regardless of gender should be a matter of course, with the explicit observation that women often wait longer for treatment. The counter-proposal's requirement for reporting on equality in healthcare, gender-disaggregated statistics and strengthened work for equal rights is a direct application of this. The plan also favours systematic statistics to illuminate inequality.

• gender perspective in all healthcaredecisive»ett genus- och jämlikhetsperspektiv ska genomsyra all vård och omsorg.« (party programme ↗)“a gender and equality perspective shall permeate all healthcare and treatment.”
• equal care regardless of gender»Likvärdig vård oberoende av kön och socioekonomiska faktorer borde vara en självklarhet.« (party programme ↗)“Equal care regardless of gender and socioeconomic factors should be a matter of course.”
• women disadvantaged in healthcare»Kvinnor får ofta vänta längre på viktiga behandlingar och har sämre tillgång till speciellt dyra behandlingsmetoder.« (party programme ↗)“Women often wait longer for important treatments and have worse access to especially expensive treatment methods.”
• statistics as tool»ta fram systematisk statistik för att belysa diskriminering och rasism i samhället.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“produce systematic statistics to illuminate discrimination and racism in society.”

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The plan establishes that women and men must receive equally good care and that Sweden must be led towards more gender-equal healthcare, among other things through strengthened gender medicine expertise throughout the care chain. Regions reporting how gender-equal care is and ensuring gender-disaggregated statistics is a means of fulfilling that commitment. The plan also requires that shared systems give women and men equal opportunities.

• gender-equal healthcaredecisive»Kvinnor och män ska få lika bra vård. Det borde vara en självklarhet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Women and men must receive equally good care. That should be a matter of course.”
• gender medicine expertise»Vi vill inrätta ett nationellt forskningsprogram om kvinnosjukdomar och stärka den genusmedicinska kompetensen i hela vårdkedjan.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We want to establish a national research programme on women's diseases and strengthen gender medicine expertise throughout the care chain.”
• lead towards gender-equal healthcare»Vi ska leda Sverige till en mer jämställd sjukvård.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We must lead Sweden towards more gender-equal healthcare.”
• gender-equal shared systems»Våra gemensamma system måste därför vara så uppbyggda att flickor och pojkar, kvinnor och män, har« (party programme ↗)“Our shared systems must therefore be structured so that girls and boys, women and men, have”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The party programme explicitly requires that the equality perspective is developed in healthcare, that all health-related statistics are analyzed from a gender perspective and that knowledge about differences between women's and men's disease patterns is improved. The counter-proposal's requirement for reporting on healthcare equality and ensured access to gender-disaggregated statistics is precisely this. The plan furthermore wants to make comparisons between healthcare providers easier and establishes that healthcare shall be equitable regardless of gender.

• gender analysis of health statisticsdecisive»Jämställdhetsperspektivet ska utvecklas i hälso- och sjukvården. All vårdrelaterad statistik ska analyseras ur ett« (party programme ↗)“The equality perspective shall be developed in healthcare. All health-related statistics shall be analyzed from a”
• knowledge about gender differences in care»Kunskapen om skillnader mellan kvinnors och mäns sjukdomsbilder måste förbättras och« (party programme ↗)“Knowledge about differences between women's and men's disease patterns must be improved and”
• equitable care regardless of gender»Vården ska vara jämlik. Var och en har rätt till god vård och omsorg oavsett bakgrund, kön, ålder, ekonomi« (party programme ↗)“Healthcare shall be equitable. Everyone has the right to good care and services regardless of background, gender, age, economic”
• open comparisons in healthcare»Patientinformationen ska utvecklas och vara tillgänglig via nätet så att det blir enklare att göra jämförelser« (party programme ↗)“Patient information shall be developed and be accessible online so that comparisons become easier”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The plan explicitly requires that healthcare consciously takes account of differences between women and men and that medicine and healthcare research are directed at both sexes. Regions reporting on how equal healthcare is and ensuring sex-disaggregated statistics is the monitoring tool that makes this possible. The plan furthermore requires that the equality perspective permeates all policy areas and that healthcare is equitable.

• healthcare shall consider gender differencesdecisive»Vården måste medvetet beakta skillnader mellan« (party programme ↗)“Healthcare must consciously take account of differences between”
• research on both women and men»Såväl läkemedels- som vårdforskning måste« (party programme ↗)“Both medicine and healthcare research must”
• equality in all policy areas»Jämställdhetsperspektivet ska genomsyra alla politikområden.« (party programme ↗)“The equality perspective shall permeate all policy areas.”
• equitable healthcare»Vården ska vara jämlik och tillgänglig för hela« (party programme ↗)“Healthcare shall be equitable and accessible to all”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The election manifesto makes clear that women should not have to express more pain to receive the same treatment as men and notes that women receive later diagnosis and poorer access to new medicines. The plan wants to address this with strengthened research and structured working methods, which requires monitoring and gender-disaggregated data. Requiring regions to report on how gender-equal healthcare is therefore aligns with the plan's commitment.

• gender-equal treatment in healthcaredecisive»Kvinnor ska inte behöva ge uttryck för mer smärta och lidande för att få samma behandling som män.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Women should not have to express more pain and suffering to receive the same treatment as men.”
• demonstrated unequal healthcare»Kvinnor får senare diagnos, sämre tillgång till nya läkemedel och det tar längre tid till dess att behandlingar sätts in.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Women receive later diagnosis, poorer access to new medicines and it takes longer for treatments to be initiated.”
• knowledge about women's diseases»Stärka forskningen gällande sjukdomar som drabbar kvinnor« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Strengthen research on diseases that affect women”
• monitoring and structured data»Förbättra möjligheterna att ställa tidigare diagnoser, bland annat med hjälp av digitala beslutsstöd och strukturerade arbetssätt med till exempel riskprofilering« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Improve the ability to make earlier diagnoses, inter alia with the help of digital decision support and structured working methods such as risk profiling”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan wants to work toward gender-equal care where men and women are treated equally and everyone is treated equally in the regions' operations, with childbirth injuries as an explicit example. That regions report how gender-equal care is and ensure gender-disaggregated statistics is a monitoring tool for that goal. However, the plan rejects measures aimed at equal outcomes at group level, which limits support.

• gender-equal caredecisive»Sverigedemokraterna vill verka för en jämställd vård där män och kvinnor behandlas lika.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Sweden Democrats want to work toward gender-equal care where men and women are treated equally.”
• equal treatment»Alla människor ska bemötas likvärdigt i landstingens och regionernas verksamheter.« (party programme ↗)“All people shall be treated equally in county councils and regions' operations.”
• women's healthcare needs taken seriously»Förlossningsskador ska exempelvis tas på lika stort allvar som andra skador.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Childbirth injuries should for example be taken just as seriously as other injuries.”
• against outcome equality»Riktig jämställdhet nås inte genom att vidta politiska åtgärder för att på gruppnivå skapa samma utfall mellan män och kvinnor, utan genom att ta krafttag mot samhällsfenomen som begränsar den enskilde.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“True equality is not achieved through political measures to create the same outcomes between men and women at group level, but through taking decisive action against social phenomena that limit the individual.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.